Re: Is AMD64 Debian port suitable for production servers

2004-09-14 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 14:17 -0700, Karl Hegbloom wrote: > Perhaps for a very important > production server you should have both a staging system and the real > thing, so that you can test updates on the staging box before putting > them onto the deployment server. Maybe that could be done with a

Re: Is AMD64 Debian port suitable for production servers

2004-09-14 Thread Karl Hegbloom
On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 22:06 +0200, Pavol Luptak wrote: > I need to choose a stable software/hardware server solution based on Debian > distribution. What sort of server will it be? What particular software set do you need to run on it? I've a related question. Are the source packages for Debia

Re: Is AMD64 Debian port suitable for production servers

2004-09-14 Thread Peter Nelson
Pavol Luptak wrote: Hello, I need to choose a stable software/hardware server solution based on Debian distribution. I'm planning to buy a 64-bit system (MB GigaByte K8VT800, AMD Athlon 64, socket 754, chipset VIA K8T800+8237 with SATA disks). According to the compatibility list http://alioth.deb

Success report Thunder K8S/AMD-8111/3ware 8506/Broadcomm 5700

2004-09-14 Thread David Liontooth
Greetings -- A big thank you to everyone who has worked hard to get this port running! It's a thrill to be back on Debian. I just switched my SuSE 9.0 system over, using the cross-install instructions at http://www.burgettsys.com/stories/59455/ and the debian-amd64-howto. Documentation suggest

Is AMD64 Debian port suitable for production servers

2004-09-14 Thread Pavol Luptak
Hello, I need to choose a stable software/hardware server solution based on Debian distribution. I'm planning to buy a 64-bit system (MB GigaByte K8VT800, AMD Athlon 64, socket 754, chipset VIA K8T800+8237 with SATA disks). According to the compatibility list http://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.

Re: pivot_root: No such file or directory

2004-09-14 Thread In The Night
This is only important because i _really_ want to compile my own customized kernel, and I haven't done this since 2.0.21, I think it was... And I'm trying to get into kernel customizing in general. I probably should put this question in some other mailing-list, but since the amd64 port is a rea

Re: pivot_root: No such file or directory

2004-09-14 Thread Harald Dunkel
In The Night wrote: Hmmm I've tried that. I've tried mkinitrd -r /dev/sdb1 too... The problem seems to be me having root on a SATA-drive mkinitrd fails to find the sata driver necessary to mount your root disk. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=263169 Workaround is to add

Re: pivot_root: No such file or directory (was: Lots of PREEMPT on 2.6.7-6 and 2.6.7-3. 2.6.8-3 panics before mounting anything.)

2004-09-14 Thread In The Night
Hmmm I've tried that. I've tried mkinitrd -r /dev/sdb1 too... The problem seems to be me having root on a SATA-drive My menu.lst-entry is for 2.6.7 (working): title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.7 root(hd0,2) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.7 root=/dev/hdg1 ro initrd

Re: gcc-3.4 udebs gone?

2004-09-14 Thread Harald Dunkel
Kurt Roeckx wrote: Both binary-amd64/Packages and debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages are empty. I have no idea why. There are new Packages files generated about 20 minutes ago, but they are still empty. Harri

Re: Sound modules problème with kde !

2004-09-14 Thread Raul Miller
On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 01:11:28PM +0200, Ludovic watteaux wrote: > modprobe snd-via82xx Try snd-via82xx dxs_support=1 -- Raul

Sound modules problème with kde !

2004-09-14 Thread Ludovic watteaux
Hello ! I've some trouble to use correctly my via82xx sound chip ! I use the module snd-via82xx but i 'm force to make a script launch in /etc/init.d/snd-via82xx --> /etc/rc2.d/S90snd-via82xx Otherwise juste with a line with snd-via82xx in /etc/modules : Sound is with crackle noise !

Re: Installation Problems

2004-09-14 Thread Mark Collin
I had a go with the monolithic mini and unfortunately I get the same thing, no drivers found for my built in NIC, only my firewire ports found. Would you have to manually configure this somehow? Frederik Schueler wrote: Hi, the nic-extra-modules udeb has the via-velocity module. Try installing

Re: Lots of PREEMPT on 2.6.7-6 and 2.6.7-3. 2.6.8-3 panics before mounting anything.

2004-09-14 Thread In The Night
ANd the Panic was: pivot_root: No such file or directory /usr/sbin.. It has something to do with my SATA-root drive changing from /dev/hdg to /dev/sda, but I cannot get i to workSomebody mentioned trying to hack initrd, but I don't know how. In The Night ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote